Hindi, Fiji
A language of Fiji
| Population | 380,000 in Fiji (1991 UBS). |
| Region | Also in Australia, United States. |
| Alternate names | “Fijian Hindi” , “Fijian Hindustani” , Fiji Hindustani |
| Dialects | No significant regional variation. A type of Awadhi [awa], also influenced by Bhojpuri [bho]. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, East Central zone |
| Language use | Official language. Used by all of Indian ancestry in Fiji, including ethnic Tamil (6,663), Gujarati (6,203), Urdu, Telugu (2,008), Gurmukhi (Panjabi, 1,167), Bengali (17,875), Malayalam. A small Gujarati community speak Gujarati at home, and a few others, mainly older people, speak their heritage languages. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 85%. Newspapers. Radio programs. Bible portions. |
| Comments | Brought by British as indentured laborers from 1879 until 1920s. SOV; verb conjugations have been simplified from Standard Hindi. Agriculturalists: sugarcane, rice, vegetables; shopkeepers, small businessmen; professional people. Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh. |
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